Ani DiFranco encourages voting in the 2020 election in the new single “Do or Die.” Directed by Zoë Boekbinder, the accompanying video opens with DiFranco getting out of bed. “Do you ever just want to give up?” she sings. “Well, me too.” She shaves her head in her bathroom and …
Read More »Will Joe Biden Be Able to Withstand Trump's Barrage of Lies During the Debate?
President Donald Trump and and former Vice President Joe Biden will square off in-person for the first time on Tuesday, and judging by Trump’s ludicrous insistence that Biden take a drug test prior to taking the stage, it’s probably going to be ugly. But more concerning than whatever low blows …
Read More »With 200K Dead, Trump Spews Lies Then Golfs for the 298th Time During His Presidency
The president seemingly does not care about the more than 200,000 Americans who have lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus, but we do know one thing he cares deeply about — his golf game. Before hitting the links at one own private golf courses in Virginia on …
Read More »'Verzuz' Is Giving an Unparalleled Boost to Artists
Quarantine darling Verzuz is one of the most effective major music promotion shows for artists looking to boost their streams, bar none. Since the pandemic began and Swizz Beatz and Timbaland decide to start Verzuz on Instagram Live (it’s now airing on Apple Music too), what was originally intended to …
Read More »500 Greatest Albums: Radiohead's Futuristic Breakthrough 'OK Computer'
As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making of key albums from the list. Radiohead‘s OK Computer came in at number 42. Before OK Computer, Radiohead were seen by many as the band behind …
Read More »Kanye West's Record Deal Is Standard. That Doesn't Mean the Record Industry Is Fair
Kanye West gave the world a rare glimpse into the music industry‘s labyrinth of recording contracts last week when he tweeted out his own paperwork with Universal Music Group —and then lambasted those agreements as exploitative and unfair, demanding his copyrights be returned to him. As far as the actual …
Read More »Blood Orange's Dev Hynes Preps Score for HBO's 'We Are Who We Are'
Blood Orange‘s Devonté Hynes will release the score to HBO miniseries We Are Who We Are on October 2nd via Milan Records. The album features 12 pieces written by Hynes for the coming-of-age drama, along with four previously issued instrumentals from composers Julius Eastman and John Adams. The eight-episode show …
Read More »Drive-By Truckers Take a Stark, Bird's-Eye Look at the Country in '21st Century USA' Video
Drive-By Truckers have released a pointed lyric video for “21st Century USA,” one of the understated highlights from the band’s 2020 record, The Unraveling. “I wrote this song during a rest stop outside of Gillette, Wyoming in January of 2018,” says the band’s co-frontman Patterson Hood. “Its blending of the …
Read More »10 Best Things We Saw at Toronto International Film Festival 2020
We came, we saw, we conquered from our couches. Looking back the 45th Toronto International Film Festival as it wound down yesterday, it was sometimes easier to fixate on how different this year’s edition was compared to previous years. Different is, of course, putting it ridiculously mildly: For starters, there …
Read More »Steve Miller Unearths 1970 Live 'Peppa Sauce' Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
Steve Miller has unearthed his tribute to Jimi Hendrix — a rendition of his band’s “Peppa Sauce” recorded live on September 18th, 1970, the day Hendrix died — to mark the 50th anniversary of the guitar god’s death Friday. “The next song is in memory of Jimi Hendrix,” Miller told …
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